Course Gateway has changed its name to The New Advisory Group. The New Advisory Group works on behalf of companies, universities, and governments to create and leverage global networks for research and professional education. Look for the renamed company’s website at www.newadvisorygroup.com in May 2016.

The ASU/edX creation of the Global Freshman Academy and LinkedIn’s acquisition of Lynda.com are landmark events in very different segments of the post-secondary education market. They both reflect a major technology-enabled transition in post-secondary education but which event represents a revolution in post-secondary education? Competency – The long-standing agreement between students and teachers is that… Read More »

In most of the world demand for affordable employment-relevant post-secondary education greatly exceeds supply. While experts will quibble, this is arguably the case in the United States and Europe and obviously the situation in developing and emerging economies around the world. This long-standing fact is, however, only one-half of an investment thesis. There is… Read More »

With regard to professional and occupational knowledge and practice, education and decision support have always been close cousins. You may learn your profession as a pharmacist, structural engineer, or urban planner at a university but you will turn to various decision support tools (reference works, manuals, short online tutorials) to deal, in the workplace, with… Read More »

In 2012 most of us learned that MOOC was an acronym for a Massive Open Online Course, an online course format designed for widespread access and consisting of online video lectures, assessments, and discussions. The recent the shift toward modularization of content, highlighted by the recent report from MIT’s Task Force on the Future of… Read More »

Ebola doesn’t spread by mysterious means, we know how it spreads. So we have the means to stop it from spreading, but it requires tremendous attention to every detail. Tom Frieden, director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 25, 2014 The current West African Ebola crisis brings into sharp relief the challenges of… Read More »

If you have completed all your summer reading books, or even if you haven’t, an important addition to your list is the final report from MIT’s Task Force on the Future of Education. As with many committee reports the news is not so much in the newness of the ideas but in who is saying… Read More »

The convergence of digital publishing, online communities, and online education continues at a rapid pace and those of us in the business have to adopt new language to describe processes and outcomes that did not exist years or even months ago. An August 1, 2014 article in the media section of the New York… Read More »

Microsoft is continuing the beta rollout of the online education authoring and delivery platform Office Mix. As we have discussed previously, Office Mix is an add-in to Microsoft Powerpoint which allows one to develop online lectures and presentations that include video narration, inking for noting and highlighting, inline assessments/surveys, and screen capture demos. Distinguished scientist… Read More »

By now Content Management Systems (CMS) are well established in most corporate environments — especially those heavily regulated such as transportation, energy, and legal verticals. Firms whose product is content have also invested heavily in CMS though typically these systems are optimized for rich media management which brings with it special challenges associated with video… Read More »

Sounds from space! NASA uploads giant library of sounds - Splice is (another) amazing example of the power of sharing digital content overlaid with modern collaboration, community, and search features.

The Institute of the Future contributes key insights to American Council on Education latest Presidential Innovation white paper on higher education business models and the changing landscape in postsecondary education.